Two small cities in one small land

Question 1

What was the landscape like in Ancient Greece like?

Answer 1

Little cities of busy Merchants, a country of barren mountain ranges and stoney fields, able to sustain only a handful of people.

Question 2

What tribes did Greece belong too?

Answer 2

Greeks belonged to a number of tribes, the most important of them being the Dorians in the south and the Lonans Aeolians in the north.

Question 3

How were the Greeks different from each other but also unified?

Answer 3

They believed in the same Religion and they loved sports.

Question 4

Why did the Greeks play sports every four years?

Answer 4

For Zeus ( The god of all gods)

Question 5

What did the Greeks call the _ every four years?

Answer 5

Olympics

Question 6

Where did the name Olympics come from?

Answer 6

A city called Olympia

Question 7

What does AD stand for when measuring time?

Answer 7

After Christ

Question 8

What does BC stand for when measuring time?

Answer 8

Before Christ

Question 9

What year was the first Olympics?

Answer 9

776 BC

Question 10

What was the other sanctuary that the Greeks held sacred?

Answer 10

Delphi was a sacred place to the Greeks.

Question 11

When did Spartans and the Dorian’s arrive in Greece?

Answer 11

1100 BC

Question 12

What part of Greece did the Dorian live in?

Answer 12

The south

Question 13

Where did the Ionians and the Aeolians live.

Answer 13

They both lived in the north

Question 14

It was, in fact, a nobleman who had the wisdom to try to give the little state a new system of Government…?

Answer 14

His name was Solon.

Question 15

What did the Spartans do when a Spartan baby appeared weak and not fit to be a warrior?

Answer 15

They were killed at birth

Question 16

What were the punishments that Spartan warriors had to over come when growing up.

Answer 16

From a very young age he must train from dawn till dusk, learn to endure pain, hunger, and cold, must eat poorly and be denied all pleasure. Boys were beaten just to harden them to pain.

Question 17

What is a metaphor for people that were raised harsh.

Answer 17

Spartan

Question 18

What happened to the Spartans on he year 480 BC?

Answer 18

The Spartans allowed themselves to be massacred by the Persians.

Question 19

Who was named after the laws that were made in 594 BC?

Answer 19

Solon

Question 20

What did the people of Athens do when one person made laws too unfair and too harsh?

Answer 20

They had all the people vote for people they considered to be experts and made them all the counsel.

Question 21

What was it that Athens people decided to call it when people vote fore their leaders.

Answer 21

Democracy.

Question 22

What does it mean when Greeks speak of polis?

Answer 22

it means Politics

Question 23

There was one politician that dodged his fate of being banished because he became too popular what was his name?

Answer 23

His name was Pericles

Question 24

What happened to people that become too popular in politics.

Answer 24

He had to seize power for himself and rule as a tyrant.

Question 25

What would happen to politicians if they decided to not accept becoming a tyrant.

Answer 25

The would be banished from the land.